Trauma and Addiction: A Vicious Cycle
It has long been understood in the vernacular of the addictions field that those whose “lives become unmanageable” through excessive use of drugs and alcohol may be trying to “drown their pain” with...
View ArticleApps with Affirmations: Thoughts for the Day
By Dr. Tian Dayton We are what we think about all day. The thoughts that we think and the feelings that accompany them can shape our experience of the day. A Harvard study looked at how what we think...
View ArticleRelationship Trauma Repair: A User-Friendly, Experiential Model of Healing PTSD
The greatest shift over the past two decades in the mental health world is the recognition that the body, as well as the mind and heart, need to be part of the therapeutic process. Relationship Trauma...
View ArticleResearch on ACOAs: What are Your Positive and Problematic Characteristics?
by Tian Dayton, PhD Which characteristics do you identify with and to what extent? This is something of a self-test and a survey. If you are an Adult Child of Alcoholism or Addiction (ACOA), you may...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Journaling in Treatment and Recovery
The translating of emotion into words is both illuminating and healing. It allows us to label what we’re feeling so that we can use our logical thinking to process and understand it. It allows us to...
View ArticleEncounters with the Self and the Group: Psychodrama, Sociometry and...
Psychodrama Psychodrama allows complexes and conflicts to be concretized by casting group members to play roles from the life of the protagonist. It allows the protagonist to have a physical...
View ArticleThe Grief Workshop
By Dr. Tian Dayton Grieving Old Losses Losses that have gone underground for years, that have remained open wounds deep within the self, may benefit greatly from grieving out in the open with the...
View ArticleBroken Rituals: Restoring Our Connection to Hope and Happiness Around the...
Who wants to be dark and dreary around the holidays? Everything around us suggests that this is a season of merriment; that holidays are meant to be a time of touching togetherness and affirming bonds...
View ArticleWhat is the ACOA Trauma Syndrome
(Courtesy of The Huffington Post) Old pain that gets imported into new relationships is the hallmark of the ACoA trauma syndrome. The past we thought we’d neatly left behind once we got tall enough,...
View ArticleFORGIVENESSS INTERVENTIONS
Experiential Exercises for Working through Forgiveness Tian Dayton’s best-selling book, Forgiving and Moving On, is now an app, courtesy of Health Communications. Learn more here:...
View ArticleUnderstanding Addiction and Supporting Recovery
Strategies and Tools for Clergy and Other Congregational Leaders Webinar Series Offered by the Clergy Education and Training Project® of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and the...
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Childhood Trauma and the Wheel of Trauma and Addiction
Feelings happen in the body. That’s why when we’re stressed out psychologically we experience it physically. If we can’t acknowledge it and process our emotions consciously through crying, processing...
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